NORDIC TIME TRAVEL. Nordic Statistics are 50 years old in 2012. We are celebrating this by focusing on life in the Region from 1962 until today. What has happened in the last 50 years?
- Fewer people are getting married and children are being born later and later.
- Infant mortality has fallen significantly. On the other hand many more abortions are performed.
- We die more often from cancer. But we are living longer.
- We don't move around as much within Nordic borders as before.
- We drink twice as much alcohol and eat more meat.
- We spend most of our money on our homes.
- The number of students at Nordic universities has increased more than fivefold, and most students are women.
- We are almost all employed in the service sector. Only a very few work in the traditional production industries.
- Both taxation and public consumption have increased considerably.
- The number of cars has increased almost fivefold.
- Read the statistics
